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'No. 65,476 Patente ddune 4,1867

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FREDERICK W. DEVOE, OF NEW .YORK, N. Y.

Letters Patent No. 65,476, dated June 4, 1867.

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TO ALL WHOM 1r MAY cononnn;

Be it known that I, FREDERICK W. DEVOE, of the city, county, and Stateof New York, have, invented. a new and useful Improvement in Cans andBoxes for Paints and other Materials; and I do hereby declare that thefollowing is a full, clear, and exact description of the same, referencebeing bad to the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a verticaltransverse section of a camconstructed according to my invention.

Figure 2, a detached section of a portion of the same on an enlargedscale.

Figure 3 is a similar detached section, showing a modification of theinvention.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in bothfigures.

This invention consists in a novel mode of securing the cover of asheet-metal can or box designed for holding paint or other materials tothe body thereof, whereby an airtight or very close joint is formedbetween the said cover and body without the use of solder.

To enable others to understand 'the nature and construction of myinvention, I will proceed to describe it with reference to the drawings.

A indicates the body of the can or box, which is made of tin or othershectmetal, and preferably of cylindrical form. This body A isfurnished, at a suitable distance from its top or upper edge, with anannular or circumferentialinternal swage, the outer side of whichconstitutes a groove, (1, and situated immediately below this groove isan external swag'e which forms a circumferential rib, b, the relativepositions of the groove a and rib 6 being somewhat more plainly shown inthe enlarged view, fig. 2. Placed around the aforesaid body of the canor box, with the upper portion situated within the groove a, and itslower portion resting upon the upper side of the rib Z1, is a ring orgasken'c, of India rubber or other like material, the said gasket beingthus laid in such position that when the cover B is placed upon andaround the upper part, a, of the body A, and pressed downward thc loweredge of'the rim [1* will be brought snugly and squarely down upon thegasket e, and compress the same upon the aforesaid rib, so that the saidcover being securely retained in place by the friction of its rim [1*upon the upper portion just mentioned, of the body A, a very close, andin fact a nearly air-tightjoint is formed between the cover and the bodyof the can orbox, such can or box being thus extremely well adapted forholding either dry or moist materials which it is desired to keep whollyenclosed. In themodification shown in fig. 3, a round instead of flatgasket is employed, the some being situated wholly within the groove (1,with the rim 6* of the cover, extending quite past the same, with itslower edge resting directly upon the rib I), the joint being (losed bythe gasket, compressed in this instance between the rim 6* and thebot-tom of the groove (1.

hat I claim as my invention, and desire to secure by LcttcrsPatent, is-

The groove (t, external rib Ii, and gasket 1:, arranged in relation witheach other and with the upper part (2* of the body A, and the rim 71* ofthe cover, substantially as herein set forth for the purpose specified.

' FRED. W. DEVOE.

Witnesses:

J. W. Ooonns, G. .W. Ruse.

